I’ve always found suicide bombing, no matter what the cause, to be amoral, reprehensible, and futile. While an equally deplorable oppression by Israel leads to Palestinian desperation, there’s no denying that Palestinians stand little chance in strengthening their case by feeding the media more news of “terrorist” activities. Paradise Now(the first Palestinian film to be nominated for an Academy Award) delivers the different mindsets surrounding the issue of Palestinian suicide bombers without compromise.

I’ve yet to fill up the 600Gb of storage in my HTPC, but so far I have around fifty flicks from 11:14 to V for Vendetta. Here’s a few onetwo liner reviews on some I’ve seen. _Caveat emptor: pretty old stuff for all you savvy moviegoers. _ 11:14Very good. If you’ve seen Crash and loved it, watch 11:14. Impeccable performance by Swank. _The Corporation(Documentary) _ Wonderful, revealing. Even if your only action as an economic agent is buying soap, watch it.

The US vs. John LennonPeace now.

Cleaning up, I came across my copy of The Fountainhead. Just a quick note to the person who got it for me: thank you 🙂 You know who you are. While I don’t entirely agree with Rand’sObjectivism, I would still recommend this book wholeheartedly. It’s chunky as with most of Rand’s work. However, it’s not another story/formula fiction, or six point font five-hundred page conspiracy drivel. It’s actually a wonderful way to get acquainted with Rand’s ideals.

It’s been about a year since I visited the first ever Starbucks shop. Opened in 1971, it’s a small, almost nondescript place in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Hounded by the usual two or three Japanese tourists with SLR cameras, one could easily spot the trivial coffee attraction down the busy public market. The shop maintains the original logo with a bare-breasted siren, her two tails flung up. There is no seating area, you just order and go.

Last year at Caesars Atlantic City I met three girls: Chance, Fate and Faith. We played poker. Chance said, “sometimes life doesn’t give us what we want. We just have to take what we get. This doesn’t mean we’ve got no choice in our dealings. We can always take things with a pinch of salt, with reluctance or with outright contempt.” Fate said, “we might fail to see the significance of the hand being dealt to us.

Everybody thought Jeb Morton committed suicide. Yet no one wanted to believe Jeb Morton committed suicide. Jeb would never do such a thing! The poor bastard, he had so much going for him. What? Suicide? But why? Disbelief aside, Jeb knew the day was coming. The day when he would finally have the courage to control his own destiny. I’m packing up and leaving, ma! Old Man Redder used to say that we’re dying the minute we’re born.

Some coffee, a lot of computer geekery and a sprinkling of Wikipedia… It’s a blue screen of death, a guru meditationor perhaps a bomb. Merrily on our way to acquire new information, we are suddenly struck by nothingness: an invalid instruction or an illegal memory access. Here be dragons, it is written. Here be dragons indeed, for what is lack of knowledge but the root of all superstition and prejudice.

Blurb Derivitive? Blatantly. Contrived? For sure. Fun? I think so. Have a read if you will. I began writing this while surrounded by a cacophony of text message notifications and cellphone chatter… “Books?” the young man of ten said, looking at his uncle. “Why would anyone use them when you can use a cortexbox?” “You don’t use books, Kamal. You read them,” Uncle Sharif said. “Read them? You mean like word after word, like in the old days?

Nate True at cre.ations.net made an impressive gizmo called The Time Fountain. He writes: It all started when my friend Jesse told me that if you get a strobe light fast enough, you can make it look like dripping water is going in slow motion or even backwards. This phenomenon happens because strobe lights can ‘capture’ an instant in time and allow your eyes to see it as lasting longer than an instant.